Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred ...

Mount Taranaki, a towering 8,261-foot stratovolcano popular among skiers and snowboarders, was recognized as a legal person in New Zealand on Thursday. Known by its Māori name Taranaki Maunga ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred ...

This 2023 satellite photo shows New Zealand's Mount Taranaki, which is surrounded by a near-perfect circle of deformed trees.

New Zealand has officially recognized Mount Taranaki as a legal person. The 2,500m volcano on the west coast of the North ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is considered an ancestor by Indigenous people. The snow-capped dormant volcano is the second highest on New Zealand’s North ...

Jan. 31 (UPI) --The New Zealand government granted Mount Taranaki the same legal rights as a person after the country agreed to compensate its indigenous inhabitants for past colonization.

The volcano — known by its Māori name Taranaki Maunga — is no longer under the ownership of the New Zealand government ... its British colonial name Mount Egmont. The mountain is considered ...